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AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Two journalists in Jordan having a televised debate about the civil war in neighboring Syria literally turned — and overturned — the table on each other during an on-air brawl. The speakers broke apart the studio's table they had been seated in an attempt to...
At least 80 percent of rebel fighters have already pulled out of the battleground Syrian city of Homs and the rest will leave on Thursday, the provincial governor told AFP. The negotiated withdrawal from the city centre where the rebels had held out under tight siege for nearly two years...
(AP) — A rebel-claimed bombing Thursday in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo leveled a hotel that government troops used as a military base, along with several other buildings in a government-held area, activists and militants said. Syrian state television said an explosion...
(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has identified 18 new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), it said late on Wednesday, pushing the total number of infections in the country so far to 449. Four people died from the disease on Wednesday, taking the total death toll in...
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Lebanon was still denying entry to Palestinians fleeing the war in neighbouring Syria Wednesday, despite its insistence there was "no decision" to keep them out. "UNRWA has been monitoring the situation at the crossing point at...
Interview by Abdullah Raja; Translation by Yusra Ahmed Kasem Saad Eddine, the FSA spokesman, the member of the Higher Military council and first defected Colonel pilot revealed to Zaman Alwasl many details about dismissing Salim Idriss and the...
Exhausted and worn out from a year-long siege, hundreds of Syrian rebels on Wednesday left their last remaining bastions in the heart of the central city of Homs under a cease-fire deal with government forces, according to AP. The exit of some 1,200 fighters and...
By George Hadad; Translation by Dani Murad An official leaked document in this regard, the first of its kind, has shown the total number of vehicles and mechanisms related to regime’s ministry of interior, in addition to its monthly consumption...
By Indo Asian News Service- Syria launched airstrikes on the Lebanese border towns of Arsal and Al-Qaa in the eastern parts of the country, media reported Wednesday. The raids targeted gunmen fleeing the Syrian territories, Xinhua reported citing Lebanon's National News Agency....
Lebanon's parliament will hold a new session on May 15 to try to choose a president, after the Hezbollah-led bloc boycotted Wednesday's meeting, leaving lawmakers without the necessary quorum. "Speaker Nabih Berri has announced May 15 as the next date for a parliament session,...
A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced the editor of an Internet forum he founded to discuss the role of religion in the conservative Islamic kingdom to 10 years in jail and 1,000 lashes, Saudi media reported on Wednesday. Raif Badawi, who started the "Free Saudi Liberals"...
Gulf Arab states will scrap by the end of the month a travel warning for citizens thinking of visiting Lebanon, in a sign of improving relations with the new Lebanese government, its tourism minister said on Wednesday. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) - Saudi Arabia ,...
Two Palestinians were executed in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday as Israeli spies, the enclave's Islamist Hamas government said, adding they had helped the Jewish state's armed forces carry out lethal operations. The condemned men, one of whom was hanged and the other shot by firing...
By George Hadad; Translation by Dani Murad A leaked official document issued by the ministry of interior acknowledged the incident where regime forces, specifically the Fourth Division, and Republican Guard, have looted two apartments...
(AFP) Human Rights Watch and a UN refugee agency both expressed concern on Tuesday that Lebanon was blocking Palestinians fleeing war-torn Syria from entering the country. UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said it was "concerned about the increased restrictions on...
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has vetoed a plan to ban WhatsApp, following a row over censorship of the popular messaging application, media reports said Wednesday. Access to social networks, including Twitter and Facebook, are routinely blocked by Iranian authorities, as are...
Some 2,000 rebels and civilians were to begin leaving besieged opposition-held districts of Homs city in central Syria on Wednesday under a deal between fighters and the government. Activists on the ground said two buses arrived in Homs early morning to begin the first of the...
